Product Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

✦︎ Vector buckets - AWS S3

July 2025

I led the design for Amazon S3 Vectors, pioneering the first cloud storage with native vector support at scale. This involved designing the comprehensive end-to-end experience for creating vector indexes and executing similarity searches using diverse input modalities, including natural language, S3 URIs, and embeddings. This initiative integrated AI-powered search capabilities directly into the S3 console, a first for the platform, and culminated in its public launch at the AWS Summit New York City 2025.

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✦︎ Data Integrity Protections - AWS S3

Nov 2024

I designed the default data integrity protections in Amazon S3, which automatically enables checksums for new objects. I designed how checksum status is shown in the console and created controls for managing settings. This made it easier for customers to protect their data by default.

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✦︎ Modernization Calculator - AWS EC2

May 2022

As part of AWS’s broader modernization efforts, I designed a guided experience that helps customers estimate the cost and effort of moving from legacy Microsoft environments to modern AWS architectures. The tool simplifies complex decisions and delivers clear, tailored recommendations to support confident planning.

✦︎ AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

May 2022

I led the design of AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET, enabling customers to confidently modernize monolithic .NET applications by breaking them into microservices. Designed the visual experience for dependency exploration and integrated AI-powered recommendations to guide extraction, significantly simplifying modernization efforts.

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